The lives of Geese

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland today for thousands of farmers worry about lead that flock of geese can be a carefree life - day after day, year after year.

How is the family of genuine goose differs from other geese?

Among the geese, there are various sub-groups. To mention there are the real geese, swans, which are also a species of geese and chickens, the geese eventually. In the true grasses are divided into two field sea ducks and geese. All animals are commonly larger spring in this country is classified as geese. Originally native to Central Europe is mainly in the gray goose. She is a representative of the field and geese have evolved through domestication of domestic goose. The domestication caught here already held by the Romans. They made ​​it to a pet goose, because you liked her meat and processed their feathers. An example of a sea goose, the Canada goose. She was not actually based in Europe and was naturalized only gradually, so that they can now be seen more frequently. The swan was also cognate once imported as an ornamental bird from China and then settled in nature. In real geese is hardly a visible difference between female and male animals make out. They are also one of the animals that live long lives in monogamous relationships. The male helps the female and then building a nest. The true geese are flying birds by nature. This ability is in some ways been lost such as in the domestic goose in the domestication over time. An initial widespread type of real goose, ultimately, a subspecies of the gray goose is the Emden goose, which is now threatened in their existence. This very large, white animal is a species of goose, which has found its popularity through a very wide spread.

Detectable from their breeding history forth to the Middle Ages and of the origin of her more from Northern Germany introduced the Emden goose in North America Besiedlund there. Due to the long time was line breeding there in females unfortunately hardly a natural nesting instinct, but this is promoted again recently vermeht. Another Quite common geese breed in the domestic geese and thus real geese, the Pomeranian goose. Characteristic here is the graugescheckte plumage. Originally, these animals in Pomerania and Rügen in the Uckermarck were home, today they are relatively common in Central Europe. Here is the natural breeding still maintained relatively good, so that this way of preserving the species in the Pomeranian goose is also still intact and made ​​good success in breeding.